The Impact of the Classroom Canines Program on Children’s Reading, Social/Emotional Skills and Motivation to Attend School

New, Wilson and Netting’s 1986 research demonstrated that domestic animals are an integral component of many people’s social support network. While such animals, particularly dogs, have since been successfully used as therapy dogs in clinical situations since the 1960s, sessions, dogs in the learnin...

The International Journal of Literacies

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